Studs Terkel Quotes
I want people to talk to one another no matter what their difference of opinion might be.
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It's great to play somebody's wife, but not all the time. There's so many other stories to tell.
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Things are simple, it is us human beings that make it difficult.
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I try to do two moot courts for every Supreme Court case (and one to two for courts of appeals), and to ensure I am being mooted by people who know the Supreme Court well and are coming to the case fresh.
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Hip-hop is an instant gratification, winners and losers circle, and often those who are losing give up after three or four, five years.
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I did not have a van, or wear Birkenstocks and tie-dyes.
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There is kind of an underground conservative movement in Hollywood, really.
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I fell in love with New York at some indeterminate point in my early years.
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You get so weak from eating pears that you fall down, and then they come and take you away on a stretcher.
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More and more, we're used to taking things in through the eyes rather than through the ears, and opera is more of a spectacle.
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I love to see a woman in a sexy, strappy sandal no matter what. It just looks beautiful.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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When you forgive somebody, it doesn't necessarily mean you want to invite them to your table.
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Excelsior, higher and higher, but only step by step.
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I feel very, very lucky that George has got a little sister.
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Patients know in a heartbeat if they're getting a clumsy exam.
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Judges who take the law into their own hands, who make up constitutional 'rights' in order to strike down laws they oppose, undermine the people's right to have their values shape public policy and define the culture.
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Whenever people can access deities directly without the intervention of a religious hierarchy, they don't need to have hierarchy so much.
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It's not like I was trying to be sexy but I had to get fit because I had to be able to do stunts. Also I wanted that, if Bond took his clothes off, he looked like a man who did what he did, which was kill people for a living. I thought the only way to do that was to work out and get fit and buff and get physically into shape.
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There are always at least five good films at the end of the year to get nominated, but generally speaking nowadays, it's more of the independent films that are recognized.
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A lot of people are not comfortable being apart from the group, from the whole herd, and listening to the inner voice. They just follow what the crowd does and wear what the crowd wears and think what the crowd thinks. They get very caught up in doing what the world says is the cool thing to do and living the way the rest of the world lives. Once we make a decision to break away from that and not be part of the herd anymore - by going inside and finding our own voice - then life just becomes magical.
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I don't want other people to decide who I am. I want to decide that for myself. I want to avoid becoming too styled and too 'done' and too generic. You see people as they go through their career, and they just become more and more like everyone else.
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On religion in particular, the time appears to me to have come, when it is a duty of all who, being qualified in point of knowledge, have, on mature consideration, satisfied themselves that the current opinions are not only false, but hurtful, to make their dissent known.
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You couldn't really like a bad guitar in 1960 'cause everybody was pretty good.
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I want people to talk to one another no matter what their difference of opinion might be.
